Recruiting Faculty to Participate in College Governance

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Recruiting Faculty to Participate in College
Governance

• Phil Smith, Facilitator Brad Byrom Phillip
  Maynard

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Why Is Recruiting Faculty for College Governance
Important?
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Power of Diverse Leadership
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Power of Diverse Leadership

• Richer Idea Generation
• Better Representation of the Views of the Entire
  Faculty
• More Effective Decision Making

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Power of Diverse Leadership

• Continuity of Faculty Voice and Participation in
  Decision Making
• Share the Workload/Reduce Burn-out
• Serves as Important Check-and-Balance

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Some General Recruiting Principles
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Some General Recruiting Principles
Be Authentic
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Some General Recruiting Principles
Look for Shared Commitment to the College
And Complementary Skills
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Recruiting a Diverse Leadership

• Be Authentic and Sincere
• Engage with Specific Leadership Issues that
  Matter to the Person
• Remove Structural Barriers to Service
• Create Structures that Foster Inclusion
• Provide a Continuum of Opportunities for Service

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Informal Leadership Gatherings
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Informal Leadership Gathering

• Mixture of Faculty Currently Serving as Leaders
  with Interested and Potential New Leaders
• Use of Personal Invitations
• Informal But With a Theme
• Emphasis on Building Camaraderie and
  Relationships
• Long term versus short term

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INFORMAL Leadership GATHERING THE INVITATION

• Be welcoming to all
• Encourage recipients to invite others who may be
  interested in leadership
• Provide a meaningful opportunity for input into
  decision making
• Include a follow up message directed at those who
  attended to encourage further involvement.

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Mentoring
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Mentoring

• Nominate Potential New Leaders for Senate
  Leadership Retreats
• Seek Nominations for Committee Assignments from
  the Senate as a Whole. Encourage senators to
  reach out to faculty with leadership potential as
  well as established leaders.
• New Faculty Orientation
• Assign Mentors to Newly Hired Faculty
• Avoid Overuse of Acronyms and Other Technical
  Language
• Establish Formal Successor Structures Such as
  Senate President-Elect.

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Building Diversity

• Consider Term Limits or Committee Rotation
  Systems
• Establish a Faculty Diversity Internship Program
• Seek Nominations for Committee Assignments from
  the Senate as a Whole. Encourage senators to
  reach out to and include underrepresented
  faculty.

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Discussion

• What barriers to recruiting new leaders have you
  experienced
• on your campus?

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Discussion

• What tactics have you or others on your campus
  used to successfully diversify leadership?